Eavesdropping on MLA
I spent two years in graduate school, getting an MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, which I wrapped up last fall. I was older than most of…
I spent two years in graduate school, getting an MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, which I wrapped up last fall. I was older than most of…
In a letter dated October 2, 1946, Raymond Chandler wrote: I suppose you read a bookseller our here was convicted of selling indecency in Edmund Wilson’s Memoirs of Hecate County….
One of my first posts about grad school included the note that Julie Granum “is a fine poet.” I didn’t know Julie. I didn’t know that wearing tank tops in…
Why is it that in the sciences, universities try to move forward, and in the humanities, they seem obsessed with looking back? I’m considering applying to PhD programs in creative…
Even with funding, graduate school is hard to manage without student loans. (Really, could you live on $14K a year?) So we all juggle our money and cross our fingers…
My workshop teacher this term, Chuck Kinder, started us off with two packets of Raymond Carver readings. As Chuck isn’t just a Carver fan — he was also a good…
Now I have to unplug the modem. Next stop: undetermined, somewhere along the 15.
That’s not fair, really. The stove has been absolutely wonderful. The only thing cruel about it is that I have to leave it behind, and it’s pink, entirely glowingly pink….
The cool new MetaxuCafe, all-litblogs, all-the-time, has decided to let me post about literary podcasts. I should post there very soon. I should also post a new literary podcast in…
Sam Sacks glancingly reviews Best New American Voices 2006 and quite reasonably takes MFA programs to the mat. Some, like The Elegant Variation, call these programs meatgrinders. The Literary Saloon…